KDE 3.5.0 seems much chubbier than 3.4.2

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Thursday 02 February 2006 05:03, Randy Bush wrote:
> >> Hmm, not sure it was unbounded, but it was certainly consuming a lot of
> >> extra memory. Note that with the debugging off top shows it as..
> >>   PID USERNAME   THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU COMMAND
> >> 19876 root         1 100    0   315M   136M select  18:16 13.67% Xorg
> >
> > Things still seem to be using more memory than I would expect.. Certainly
> > my laptop is swapping more than I expect :(
> >
> > Is there a simple way to revert to the old malloc? Just back out
> > malloc.c? I'd go back to KDE 3.4.2 but that is a lot more complex :)
>
> been there.  it was the recent firefox.

Except I'm not running firefox.

Also, xrestop shows X using 120Mb of pixmaps.
X's size is 315M, and I have a 64Mb video card.

64 + 120 = 184
315 - 184 = 131

ie 131Mb of space that X is using but no obvious reason..

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